From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823E013877A for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 00:10:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8DD84E0C37; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 00:09:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20321E0ABE for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 00:09:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 6B4BE24C49 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 01:09:51 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 01:09:50 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Message-ID: <20140902010950.32625f03@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140901235129.GI15640@syscon7> References: <20140830053737.GA5867@syscon2> <20140831205527.4ea565c2@joel.rcfcuxp.local> <20140901095110.5bd3d426@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <9656274.IeHv5j4dDW@nemesis> <20140901162922.GF15640@syscon7> <20140901185337.GB1718@defunct.ch> <20140901211314.63fe9e3e@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <5404EBF9.6050601@gmail.com> <20140901230346.4aa8ecd0@digimed.co.uk> <20140901235129.GI15640@syscon7> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1-119-g7fbc83 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/BC.mTO720pRc0.S/UBEoocd"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: a4cf131a-7951-4d0a-99ae-6e335999d39d X-Archives-Hash: d3df89dffd99f2ffc83391218314f4c1 --Sig_/BC.mTO720pRc0.S/UBEoocd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 17:51:29 -0600, Joseph wrote: > >> > It definitely works here, and fdisk shows it to be a hybrid image. > >> > You are writing it to the USB device itself and not a partition on > >> > it? =20 You didn't answer this. > >Yes, you MUST run sync after dd. When I tested the minimal install > >image just now, dd returned after less than two seconds. sync took a > >little longer... > Yes, I did use "sync" after "dd" makes no difference. Have you tried this with more than one drive, to rule out hardware problems? --=20 Neil Bothwick Microbiology: staph only. --Sig_/BC.mTO720pRc0.S/UBEoocd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlQFCs4ACgkQum4al0N1GQPJbQCeJ9ZaO0BiTJdOhV7ek67FGhdG IfgAoJNrP+hUrW2fcMzJH+GOXplCMz26 =l9vW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/BC.mTO720pRc0.S/UBEoocd--